Grey Shrike-thrush

Grey Shrike-thrush

Taxobox
name = Grey Shrike-thrush
status = LC
status_system = IUCN3.1


image caption = "Colluricincla harmonica harmonica"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Pachycephalidae
genus = "Colluricincla"
species = "C. harmonica"
binomial = "Colluricincla harmonica"
binomial_authority = Latham, 1802The Grey Shrike-thrush ("Colluricincla harmonica"), formerly commonly known as Grey Thrush, is one of the best-loved and most distinctive songbirds of Australasia. It is moderately common to common in most parts of Australia, but absent from the driest of the inland deserts. It is also found in New Guinea.

Of medium size (about 24 cm long) and lacking bright colours, the Grey Shrike-thrush—usually just "thrush" in casual conversation—has an extraordinary gift for ringing melody, unmatched by any other Australasian species save perhaps the two lyrebirds and its northern relative, the Sandstone Shrike-thrush.

The Grey Shrike-thrush is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.


References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5673&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=51084 IUCN Red List]


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